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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Brynner, Rock
Working name of US musician, actor, academic and author Yul Brynner Junior (1946-2023), "Rock" being a childhood nickname in honour of the boxer Rocky Graziano; his relationship with his father Yul Brynner (1920-1985) was complex but fruitful, resulting in two studies of that actor. The son is of sf interest for The Doomsday Report (1998), a very Near-Future Satire on the ...
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr
(1922-2007) US author, who signed his name simply Kurt Vonnegut (without the Jr) after 1976. He was a Prisoner of War near the end of World War Two in Dresden from December 1944 to May 1945, surviving the saturation bombing of the city and the subsequent firestorm, basing his most successful novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) [see below] on his experience; he was awarded a Purple Heart on his return to America, normally given to those wounded in ...
Fallout [tv]
US tv series (2024- ). Kilter Films, Big Indie Pictures, Bethesda Game Studios, Amazon MGM Studios. Created and partly written by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, based on the Videogame series Fallout (1997). Producers include Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. Various writers and directors. Cast includes Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Walter Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones, ...
Atomic Rulers
Japanese/US film (1965; vt Atomic Rulers of the World). Shintoho. Directed by Teruo Ishii. Written by Ichiro Miyagawa. Cast includes Ken Utsui. 75 minutes. Black and white. / This film was edited from episodes 1 and 2 of the Japanese Super Giant film series (see Tokusatsu): Super Giant (1957; 49 minutes; original title Sūpā Jaiantsu) and Super Giant Continues (1957; 52 ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...